Teaching Sight Words

Learning sight words or high frequency word is a great way to help students develop fluency but sometimes it can be difficult to get beyond simply using flash cards to teach sight words. On this page you will find many great ideas and games to enhance any reading program.

Sight Word Games

Sight Word Safari

This is a free sight word board game from SchoolSparks. Click on the link or on the picture to get to the free download.

Turtle's Sight Words

This packet includes four file folder games to practice the first 30 words on Fry's Sight Word List.

$2.50

Penguin's Sight Words

This packet includes four file folder games to practice words 31-60 on Fry's Sight Word List.

$2.50

Bingo

KinderTastic has a great set of sight word bingo cards. 24 different game boards plus a template so you can choose your own words.

Paper Cup Game

This idea comes from Look at my happy Rainbow. The idea is to have students take turns reading the sight word on the cup before they stack them. If they can't read the word its the next child's turn. Its a great idea for a literacy center.

Fun with Glitter

Glue glitter down on the letters of the sight word and have students trace their finders along the word.

Use shaving cream

Bowling for Sight Words

Here is a fun physical activity to get your students motivated to learn sight words. Put post it notes on bowling pins and have students read the sight word before placing the pins back up. For complete game instructions visit the Mon to 2 Posh Lil Divas blog.

Rainbow Sight Words

You can make writing sight words more fun by allowing students to write their sight word in a rainbow.

Numbers, Colors, and Shapes

Includes words 1-75 from Fry's sight word list. (Except for the words "a" and "I")

First Grade Sight Word Worksheets

$3.50

Includes words 76-150 from Fry's sight word list.

Dolch Pre-primer: Sight word worksheets

$3.50

This download contains worksheets for the words in the Dolch pre-primer list.

Dolch second grade - sight word worksheets

$3.50

Dolch Primer - Sight Word Worksheets

$3.50

A set of worksheets for the words from the Dolch Primer word list.

Dolch First grade - sight word worksheets

$3.50

Worksheets for each of the words in the First grade Dolch word list.

One breath boxes

How many sight words can you cay in one breath? In this game students discover just that. Origianally developed by Teachertipster.com. I found this one at Swamp frog first graders who adapted it to there own sight word list.

Sight Word Zoo

$1.50

This is a card game that allows your classroom to practice their sight words. To play the game kids take turns drawing cards. If they draw a sight word they must say the word. If they draw an animal card everyone starts to act like that animal until the teacher says, "Zoo keeper." When this is said everyone must freeze until the teacher says back to your cages, when everyone come quietly back to the carpet. This is a massive download with 10 decks, plus a blank one, that cover the first 300 words on Fry's Sight Word List. This is a perfect game to make sight word flash cards fun!

Having Students trace their sight words in the air with a magic wand is a great way to make practicing sight words fun. You just need to give students a list of sight words (you can also have them on slips of paper) and a magic wand. You can click on the title to find two other tutorials on how to make your own magic wand.